Theistic Replies to the a PRioriArgument for Atheism
| Abstract | In the central chapter of Can God Be Free? , William Rowe offers what amounts to an a priori argument for atheism. In what follows, I first clarify this argument, and I then defend it against recent criticisms due to William Hasker. Next, however, I outline four ways in which theists might plausibly reply to Rowe’s argument | |||||||||
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